2010 Visitors

The US Studies Centre hosts visitors from the highest levels of government, media, think tanks and universities. Visitors to the Centre have included former Australian Prime Ministers, senior American government officials and numerous academics from universities including Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale universities and the University of California Berkeley.

Kate Jones

Minister of Climate Change and Sustainability, Queensland

Kate Jones was sworn in as Queensland's Climate Change and Sustainability Minister in March 2009. Her priorities include reducing the carbon footprint of every household in Queensland, cutting harmful… more

Dr Raphael Bostic

Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Dr Raphael Bostic was sworn in as the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research in July 2009, serving as principal advisor to the Secreta… more

Robert Doyle

Lord Mayor of Melbourne

Robert Doyle is Lord Mayor of Melbourne. He is a Principal at The Nous Group, a management consultancy business based in Melbourne, and is Chairman of Melbourne Health.Robert is President of the Lord … more

Lucy Turnbull, AO

Patron of the United States Studies Centre

Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO is the patron of the US Studies Centre. She was a member of the Centre's Board of Directors from 2007 to 2015.… more

Meg McDonald

Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Carbon Trust

Meg McDonald was appointed CEO of the Australian Carbon Trust in February 2010. The Trust has been established by the Australian Government as an independent company with over $100 million initial fun… more

Professor Robert Yaro

President of the Regional Plan Association, New York

Robert D. Yaro is the President of the Regional Plan Association, America's oldest independent metropolitan policy, research and advocacy group. Based in Manhattan, the Regional Plan Association promo… more

Ken Morrison

Chief Operating Officer of the Property Council of Australia

Ken Morrison is the Chief Operating Officer of the Property Council of Australia, the nation's advocate for the $600 billion property industry. He was previously the Property Council's NSW Executive D… more

David Kepler

Executive Vice President, Business Services and Chief Sustainability Officer for The Dow Chemical Company

David Kepler is executive vice president, business services, chief sustainability officer, and chief information officer for The Dow Chemical Company. He is a member of Dow's Executive Leadership Comm… more

Professor Robert Cervero

Director, University of California Transportation Center and Professor of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley

Robert Cervero is Director of the University of California Transportation Center and Professor of City & Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2004, he was the first-ev… more

Mark Cridland

Deputy Director-General (Policy and Planning), Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads

Mark Cridland is the Deputy Director-General (Policy and Planning) for the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads with responsibility for Strategic Policy; Integrated Transport Planning; Ro… more

Professor John Thwaites

Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute and Chair of ClimateWorks Australia

Professor John Thwaites is Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute and Chair of ClimateWorks Australia. He is a consultant at Maddocks Solicitors, chairs the Climate Group Ltd in Australia, the P… more

Professor Paul Meredith

Professor of Materials Physics and a Smart State Senior Fellow at the University of Queensland

Paul Meredith is Professor of Materials Physics and a Smart State Senior Fellow at the University of Queensland. He is also co-founder and Vice-President Materials Development of the solar coatings co… more

Professor Mary O'Kane

Chair at the Australian Centre for Renewable Energy and NSW Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer

Professor Mary O'Kane is Chair at the Australian Centre for Renewable Energy and NSW Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer. She was Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the Unive… more

Professor Andrew Griffiths

Chair in Business Sustainability and Strategy, UQ Business School

Professor Andrew Griffiths holds the Chair in Business Sustainability and Strategy in the UQ Business School and is the academic director of the Corporate Sustainability executive program in the schoo… more

Polly Trottenberg

Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at the US Department of Transportation

Polly Trottenberg is Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at the US Department of Transportation. She was previously Executive Director of Building America's Future and worked in the US Senat… more

John-Paul Langbroek

Leader of the Opposition and the Liberal National Part in the Queensland Parliament

John-Paul Langbroek is the Leader of the Opposition and the Liberal National Party in the Queensland Parliament to which he was elected as the Member for Surfers Paradise in 2004. Langbroek has held n… more

Kevin Kramer

President, Growth Initiatives for Alcoa

Kevin Kramer is the first President, Growth Initiatives for Alcoa, with responsibilities for supporting commercialisation strategies for organic growth, and identifying and developing new applications… more

Roger Beale AO

Executive Director, Economics and Policy, Pricewaterhouse Coopers

Roger Beale AO is an Executive Director, Economics and Policy with Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Prior to joining PwC, he was Senior Associate with the Allens Consulting Group having previously served for … more

Rob Skinner

Managing Director of Melbourne Water

Rob Skinner was appointed Managing Director of Melbourne Water in February 2005 and is a Board member of the Water Services Association of Australia. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of Kings… more

Dan Spiller

Director of Operations, Southeast Queensland Water Grid Manager

Dan Spiller is Director of Operations of the Southeast Queensland Water Grid Manager and was previously acting Executive Director of the Queensland Water Commission. He was the principal author of the… more

Professor Mark Pascoe

CEO of the International WaterCentre Pty Ltd

Mark Pascoe is CEO of the International WaterCentre Pty Ltd where his role is to lead the development of the Joint Venture of four Australian Universities in providing solutions to water management is… more

Professor Tor Hundloe

Emeritus Professor of Environmental Management at the University of Queensland

Tor Hundloe is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Management at the University of Queensland, Foundation Professor of Environmental Management and Science at Bond University and Senior Research Fello… more

Mike Ritchie

Director of Mike Ritchie and Associates

Mike Ritchie is Director of Mike Ritchie and Associates, which consults in the Environment, Waste and Carbon sectors. He was previously General Manager, Marketing and Communications at SITA Environmen… more

Rod Welford

Chief Executive of the Australian Council of Recycling

Rod Welford is the Chief Executive of the Australian Council of Recycling, the peak national industry body for the australian recycling industry. He is also Chairman of AstiVita Renewables Limited, Ch… more

Romilly Madew

Chief Executive of the Green Building Council of Australia

Romilly Madew has been Chief Executive of the Green Building Council of Australia since February 2005. She was previously Chair of the Urban Committee for the ACT Government's Land Development Agency … more

Professor Ray Wills

Chief Executive of the WA Sustainable Energy Association

Professor Ray Wills is Chief Executive of the WA Sustainable Energy Association and an Adjunct Professor with the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Western Australia. He is also Pri… more

John Norquist

President of the Congress for the New Urbanism

John Norquist is President of the Congress for the New Urbanism and was Mayor of Milwaukee for six years. Under his leadership, Milwaukee experienced a decline in poverty, saw a boom in new downtown h… more

Cate Collins

Head of Sustainability Australia, Lend Lease

Cate Collins is actively involved in the design, planning and management of sustainability strategies across both the public and private sectors.… more

James Fallows

National Correspondent for The Atlantic

At the US Studies Centre, James Fallows was Chair in US Media from 2009 to 2013 and a Visiting Professor from 2013 to 2015. … more

Professor Morris Fiorina

Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University

Professor Fiorina's current research focuses on elections and public opinion with particular attention to the quality of representation—how well the positions of elected officials reflect the pr… more

Professor Daniel Kurtzer

Chair in Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University

Daniel C. Kurtzer retired from the US Foreign Service with the rank of Career-Minister. From 2001-2005 he served as the United States Ambassador to Israel and from 1997-2001 as the United States Ambas… more

Professor Jack Miles

Pulitzer Prize winning author of GOD: A Biography and Professor at the University of California, Irvine

Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy, Jack Miles is a wri… more

Associate Professor Peter Beinart

Associate Professor at the City University of New York and senior political writer for The Daily Beast

Peter Beinart is associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York and former editor of The New Republic. He is the senior political writer for The Daily Beast… more

Michael Kranish

Boston Globe correspondent based in Washington

Michael Kranish is a correspondent in The Boston Globe’s Washington bureau. He specialises in investigate reporting on national political affairs, presidential election politics and the Executiv… more

Associate Professor Greg Castillo

Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley

Greg Castillo received a B.F.A. in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975, an M.A. at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California in 1978, an … more

Associate Professor Amy Zegart

Associate Professor, UCLA School of Public Affairs and Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Amy Zegart is Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Public Affairs, a Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Universi… more

Professor John Mearsheimer

R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, wh… more

Gregory Hummel

Lawyer with expertise in public-private partnership matters

Gregory Hummel is a partner at the law firm Brian Cave LLP. He concentrates his practice in public-private partnership matters, including:… more

Professor Kevin Gaines

Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Professor of History at the University of Michigan

Kevin Gaines studies US and African American intellectual and cultural history; race and gender politics in post-World War II America; African American cultural production; and the global dimensions o… more

Professor Jeffrey Schott

Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Jeffrey J. Schott joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 1983 and is a senior fellow working on international trade policy and economic sanctions. During his tenure at the Instit… more

Professor Bruce Western

Director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at Harvard University

Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.… more

Professor Henry Farber

Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University

Professor Henry (Hank) Farber graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a BS in 1972, the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University with a MS in 1974 and P… more

Professor Kenneth Prewitt

Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University

Kenneth Prewitt joined the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia in 2002 as the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs. Prewitt’s research includes the use of ethnoracial classif… more

Professor Jennifer Hochschild

Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University

Jennifer Hochschild joined Harvard's Government Department in January 2001, and is now the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard Coll… more

Professor Glenn Loury

Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University

Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. He has taught previously at Boston, Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and t… more

Professor Gary Segura

Professor of American Politics and Chair of Chicano/a Studies at Stanford University

Gary M. Segura is a member of the US Studies Centre's International Academic Advisory Committee.… more

Professor Simon Jackman

Expertise: US and Australian elections, public opinion, election campaigns and political participation.… more

Professor Michael Hiscox

Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University

Michael J. Hiscox was director of the STAR Lab at the US Studies Centre until October 2015.… more

Dr Maggie Walter

Senior Lecturer with the School of Sociology at the University of Tasmania

Maggie Walter is a trawlwoolway woman of the pymmerrairrener nation of north east Tasmania and a senior lecturer with the School of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research is … more

Professor Bob Gregory

Professor of Economics at the Australian National University

Professor R. G. Gregory is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently Professor of Economics at the Research School of Social S… more

Professor Jeff Borland

Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne

Jeff Borland is a member of the US Studies Centre's International Academic Advisory Committee. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne.… more

Professor Andrew Leigh

Professor of Economics at the Australian National University

Andrew Leigh is a professor in the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University. His current research is in the fields of labour economics, public economics and the economics of … more

Professor Deborah Brennan

Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales

Deborah Brennan is a member of the US Studies Centre's International Academic Advisory Committee.… more

Dr Boyd Hunter

Senior Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University

Boyd Hunter specialises in labour market analysis, social economics and poverty research. Boyd coordinated the first longitudinal analysis of Indigenous job seekers for the Department of Workplace Rel… more

Judith Ehrlich

Academy Award-nominated documentary film maker

Ehrlich co-produced and co-directed the ITVS documentary, The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It, a story of men guided by principle to take the unpopular position of pacifism in the face of W… more

Professor Susan Vogel

Documentary filmmaker and Professor of Art History at Columbia University

Susan has published many books, and written a few, founded an art museum in New York — that survived her departure — and directed two museums. She then successfully completed two years as … more

Gail Fosler

Senior advisor and past President of The Conference Board

During her 20 year career at The Conference Board, Fosler held a number of executive and leadership roles dedicated to expanding the organisation’s intellectual capacity and impact and its globa… more

Professor Mark Tushnet

William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

Professor Tushnet, who graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, specialises in constitutional law and theory, including comparative co… more

Jonathan Greenblatt

Social entrepreneur, President of All for Good & Lecturer at the Anderson School of Management, UCLA

Jonathan is the founder and president of All for Good, the open source, web-based initiative to engage more Americans in service. He previously served as CEO of GOOD Worldwide; vice president o… more

Professor Peter Katzenstein

Professor of International Studies at Cornell University

Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University and President of the American Political Science Association. His research and teaching lie… more

Henry Cisneros

Former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Henry Cisneros is Executive Chairman of the CityView companies, which work with leading homebuilders to create homes priced within the range of average families.… more

Professor Judith Smith

Dean and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, UCLA

Professor Judith Smith has been Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at UCLA since 1996, the university’s top leader responsible for the education of more than 25,000 undergraduate s… more

Professor James Hansen

James Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Trained in physics and astronomy in Dr James Va… more

Mark Danner

Reporter and writer on foreign affairs, politics and war

Mark Danner has reported and written on foreign affairs, politics and war for twenty-five years. He was for many years a staff writer at The New Yorker and contributes frequently to The New York Revie… more

Professor Michael Lipsky

Senior Program Director at Demos

Michael Lipsky is Senior Program Director at Demos, a public policy research and advocacy organization based in New York. Before coming to Demos in October, 2003, he served for twelve years as a Senio… more

Professor Thomas Romer

Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University

Thomas Romer is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and Director of the Research Program in Political Economy at Princeton University. His research explores the interaction of the market and nonm… more

Professor David Brady

Deputy Director of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Professor David Brady was a guest of the US Studies Centre in February 2010. During his visit he discussed the Obama Presidency, US domestic policy and international affairs, the state of the Republic… more